Each week there is a different station. First, we start out with Starlight Cinema, where the children view a movie on the story for the month and enjoy popcorn and big movie screen. The next Sunday they act out the story in Paradise Productions, and following that Sunday, they make a craft in Creation Station week. Finally, they play story-base games in Bible Quest. Join us every Sunday for exciting stories and interesting ways to learn more about God's Word.  SALT is every Sunday starting at 11:15AM, which is after the Worship Service and snack time. See you this Sunday! 

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Philippians 3:1-3

The same old commands – that’s what Paul reiterates to the Philippian believers in this passage. Yet the commands that he issues are anything but unimportant. They are highly important, which is why they bear repeating!

1. Rejoice (v. 1)

2. Beware (v. 1-3)

Soli Deo Gloria

Our AWANA Grand Prix is scheduled for Saturday, February 6, 2010, starting at 3:00 PM in the fellowship hall. Please, join us to watch the children race their cars. It will be loads of excitement. See you there!

I don’t pray in order to get answers. Sometimes I feel like I’m not very spiritual when people talk about prayer and I compare my prayer life to theirs. I will admit that I do not pray as I ought. I need to work on the discipline of prayer. But it seems to me that some people, in their prayer lives, treat God like a genie in a bottle and prayer like rubbing the bottle.
I think that, instead of praying because we know prayer is powerful and because we know God will answer, we ought to pray just because we know God hears us. Pray simply because God is attentive to us. Have you ever been disappointed by God? Have you ever felt like God does not hear your prayers? How would our prayer life be different if we really believed that God really hears?

Selected Scriptures

A pervasive and perennial problem – that’s what sin is. In this message we observe how to properly handle that problem - which is what every believer needs to be doing!

1. We are to ____________ sin

2. We are to ____________ sin

3. We are to ____________ sin

4. We are to ____________ sin

5. We are to ____________ from sin

6. We are to ____________ from sin

Soli Deo Gloria

Philippians 2:25-30

You may never have laid down a bet, yet at some point God may require you to gamble. You may be called upon to gamble your life, like Epaphroditus, one of the great heroes of the New Testament!

1. He was a ____________(v. 25)

2. He was a ____________(v. 25)

3. He was a ____________(v. 25)

4. He was a ____________(v. 25)

5. He was a ____________(v. 25)

6. He was a ____________(v. 26)

7. He was a ____________(v. 27, 30)

Soli Deo Gloria

I think that one of the most misunderstood of the commands of Jesus is this one: Do not judge (Matt. 7:1). You tell me: Is it judgmental to stand outside Joel Osteen’s church and preach against him? Check it out on YouTube. Is it judgmental to speak out against the legalization of gay marriage? To tell a friend that her sexual promiscuity is sinful and destructive? To confront a friend regarding his drinking? The command is clear: do not judge. To judge is God’s responsibility, not mine. If I do judge others, I will be judged. But what does it mean to judge?

Philippians 2:14-16

“This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine” – that must be the commitment of every believer in Jesus Christ. As our Lord declared we are to let our light shine before men, and we see this evening exactly how!

1. We are to be a light through our ______________ (v. 14-15)

A. Which means not ____________ (v. 14)

B. Which means not ____________ (v. 14)

2. We are to be a light through our ____________ (v. 16)

Soli Deo Gloria

Of all the stuff I own, my most prized possessions are probably my golf clubs, my car, my yard, and my laptop computer. If my house was on fire and my family and the cat were safely outside, and I still had time to run in once more, I would grab my laptop and the car keys. I would pull the car out of the garage thus saving both the car and my golf clubs which are always in my trunk. (Thinking about this reminds me of a few things I need to put in the fireproof safe!) I’ve got a lot of stuff and, even after saving the most important things, I would still be devastated to lose everything else. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus addresses our attachment to possessions. He issues a prohibition and a command: Do not store up treasure on earth, instead store up treasure in heaven (Matt. 6:19-20). Then He describes the reasons for the prohibition and command: